Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people
vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
- Franklin Pierce Adams

The election of a deputy to the Legislature offers a noble and
majestic spectacle comparable only to the delivery of a child.
It involves the same efforts, the same impurities, the same
laceration, and the same triumph.
- Honore de Balzac

So tonight, to you, the great silent majority of my fellow
Americans, I ask for your support.
- Richard Milhous Nixon

An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it
has two or more national parties which merely have different
names but are as alike in their principles and aims as two peas
in the same pod.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt